Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Brian: Why I Started My Business I was in corporate life from the time I graduated college in 2000, all the way up until 2020, and the last four jobs that I had in the corporate world were inside sales and customer service. Then between 2013 and 2015, I moved into more of a pure sales role where I was cold calling.

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Prospecting Pivotal Cold Calling Incentives 95

Score More Sales

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Use the steps and your own terminology within your sales process to help your SDRs and BDRs enter clean, verified data.]. This is not so much a clean data issue but is so critical in moving your sales opportunities forward that it needs to be mentioned. Add the phone number if available. Increase Opportunities.

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Vendor Neutral

JULY 30, 2021

Derrick Williams, Tenbound Derrick has been scaling high-performance Inside Sales & Sales Development teams for more than 10-years for hyper-growth startups and Enterprise companies such as Verizon and Dell. Most recently, Derrick joined Tenbound as a Senior Sales Development Consultant.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 20, 2016

We generate, qualify and nurture leads using Account-Based Marketing processes. At the start of 2016, we were brought in to support a group of sales reps who did not make their numbers in 2015. To date in 2016, these same territory reps have exceeded their numbers. Their “reward”? No more support in 2017.

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Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

I invest some time reading some best sales management books and getting actionable takeaways to amp up your sales team’s performance. Here are some of the best sales management books that you should consider reading: 1. Sales management simplified. Published – October 2015. Author – Mike Weinberg.

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Sales Management Face-to-face Quota Coaching 116

Score More Sales

JANUARY 19, 2015

I wrote a quick post last week from the Rainmaker 2015 Sales Development Summit – but didn’t give it the detail it deserved, so here is part 2. We wanted to launch the Sales Development Summit to give Sales Dev leaders their community to connect, to learn more, do more, and become more.

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SBI

MAY 11, 2015

Sales ToolSkool Video Transcript: This week’s topic is how to optimize the entire sales process from lead to revenue. The sales process begins when prospects visit your website. If you want to maximize your sales performance go to calliduscloud.com today. I’ll be talking about CallidusCloud.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 18, 2016

The hypothesis above is based on the research and conclusions of four leading sales trainers who shared their findings at the 2015 PipelineDeals Accelerate Sales Conference and Sales Hacker Workshop with Microsoft in Seattle, WA. Defining your CPP is a critical step to the success of your sales process.

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Ideal Customer Profile PipelineDeals Top of Funnel Buyer Persona 133

Close.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Whether you’re a sales professional that likes reading or doesn’t, you’ll find fresh frameworks and tons of insights in the book. Who should read this : Inside sales reps will find a lot of high-value advice for smarter cold calling and actionable techniques for tackling specific sales challenges. Fanatical Prospecting.

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Cold Calling Negotiation Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 116

Pointclear

JULY 14, 2015

This is the final installment of a three-part series in response to the following question: As we enter the second half of 2015, have companies made the adjustments necessary to utilize lead scoring or is the status quo killing results? Tactically this can be easier to do within functional groups (inside sales, paid media, etc.).

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 4, 2016

From the highest-value targets, to the best training, equipment, and support possible , genuine sales teams have the ability to move upstream, much like his team and their total revenue growth of 92% in 2015. Next in the spotlight was Andrea Hansen , Head of Sales Development at Gainsight. Want to see for yourself?

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 1, 2016

YoY increase from 2015. And those opportunities you thought were progressing through the waterfall / sales process to “wins”? And its not just your direct sales reps that have the issue. Many organizations are relying more and more on channel partners and inside sales to drive growth.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 4, 2018

Search engines like Wolfram Alpha become so smart they can fully educate the prospect so they go 100% of the way through the sales process before ever needing to talk to a human. It's unclear if ERP firms even understand ERP and it's 2015. Inside sales doesn't have to be a career path to outside sales.

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Hiring Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 68

Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Dear Social Seller of 2015, Now that I've got your attention I must warn you. Any advanced selling system is based on the fundamentals however you have to leverage a process and acknowledge the nurturing required for an effective sales cycle to happen in social environs over time. A one size fits all approach simply won't work.

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Velocify

OCTOBER 17, 2017

If you aren’t seeing emoji use increase in your daily communication, allow me to introduce some metrics into the mix: Since 2015, there has been a 777% increase in the use of emojis by marketers. They allow us to communicate faster and with more clarity. Emojis have become a standard part of customer communication—but is it working?

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Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2021

But when the pandemic sent the world into lockdown, almost 90 percent of sales moved to the Inside Sales model of video conferencing, voice calls, and web-based technologies. In early June 2021, the ZoomInfo database listed 117,436 professionals with the term “Inside Sales” in their job title within the United States.

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Outside Sales Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 147

Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2021

But when the pandemic sent the world into lockdown, almost 90 percent of sales moved to the Inside Sales model of video conferencing, voice calls, and web-based technologies. In early June 2021, the ZoomInfo database listed 117,436 professionals with the term “Inside Sales” in their job title within the United States.

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InsideSales.com

JUNE 12, 2020

This may sound extreme on the surface – but in reality, sales will never return to the way it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, and this is a good thing. Many of the needed sales process changes were forced upon us as we adjusted to selling from home. Inside Sales Teams are Already Digital. Instrumented.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

MARCH 20, 2019

As I was putting this post together, I hopped into my time machine and zipped back to 2015 when I first attended Rainmaker and wrote about my experience that year. What I realized in reading that 2015 blog post was that the more things change, the more they actually stay the same.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Ninety-five percent of buyers chose a solution from a company that “provided them with ample content to help navigate through each stage of the buying process,” DemandGen Report discovered in a study. But I do believe having ample content is important to the sales process. As a content marketer, I’m a little biased here.

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Data Prospecting Top of Funnel Lead Rank 95

InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In this article: Jim Steele’s Strategies to Improve Sales Teams for Better Results. Treat the Sales Process Like a Relationship, Not a Transaction. Don’t Forget to Include More Upselling in Your SaaS Process. If the SaaS Sales Process Feels Too Long, Don’t Worry. Obsess over Customer Service.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career? Prospects really value a partner through the sales process whether it’s challenging their assumptions or being accountable to your timeline of deliverables. I spent 13 years in massage therapy, which included running my own business, before I moved to sales.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Lead Rank 130

Close.io

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Is it used to see real-time information, track trends, or forecast future sales ? Will it be used by outside sales teams who might need a mobile version, or an inside sales team that wants something more personalized and in-depth? The open activities sales KPI is like a to-do list for your sales team.

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